386 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxi. 



CHLORION (PROTEROSPHEX) RESINIPES, new name. 

 WSphex rufipes Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hyiii., Ill, 1845, p. 343. 



Medium sized in.sects; the head, thorax and petiole black; abdomen, 

 legs (except the coxfe) and tegulas deep ferruginous or resin colored; 

 ■wino-s hyaline with a j^ellow tinge, but also somewhat fuliginous with 

 a violet retiection. 



Female. — Head broad but hardly quadrangular, the cheeks retreat- 

 ing too quickly, though the eyes are quite full; clypeus black, its 

 anterior margin and a median extension backward therefrom being 

 more or less ferruginous; rather sparsely covered with yellowish- 

 white pubescence and numerous long, yellowish hairs, the outer ends 

 of which are blackish; the anterior margin of the clypeus somewhat 

 reliexed, the portion beneath the eyes bare, smooth; the front margin 

 quite evenly rounded, with two small, rounded lobes at the middle just 

 above which is a slight depression or fovea; frons pubescent like the 

 clypeus nearly to the ocelli, and with whitish hairs, shorter than those 

 on the clypeus; this plate above the pubescence, the vertex, occiput 

 and cheeks, black, somewhat sericeous; distance between the lateral 

 ocelli less than from them to the ej^es; vertex and occiput with fairly 

 numerous, long, whitish hairs and a few longer, black ones; cheeks with 

 a small, whitish, sparsely pubescent area behind the middle of the eye, 

 becoming merely whitish-sericeous above and below; with numerous 

 whitish and yellowish hairs, closer together and longer below; the 

 cheeks broadest about one-third of their length below the top of the 

 head; narrowing rapidly below, about two-thirds the width of the eye 

 at their widest point; antennae black, the scape ferruginous beneath, 

 with a few short, pale hairs; outer part of the hlament somewhat 

 sericeous; relative lengths of the filament segments 30^^33, t\, t?? t*5 5 

 mandibles rather stout, each not quite reaching to the base of the other, 

 two-toothed, the teeth black nearly to their bases, the remainder fur- 

 ruginous with a blackish tinge at the basal articulation; the anterior 

 face with a number of irregular punctures, the inner edge with a few 

 long, ferruginous and black hairs, and the outer edge with a sparse 

 fringe of similar ones. 



Thora.v. — Anterior face of the collar rising sharph^ about at right 

 angles to the neck, partly whitish sericeous and with quite long, whit- 

 ish hairs; the dorsal edge silvery pubescent, only ver}^ slightly flattened 

 in the middle; the posterior face closely .appressed against the meso- 

 notum; the side in front of the prothoracic lol)e quite smooth, some- 

 what glistening; prothoracic lobe bare in front, rather sparsely pale 

 yellowish-white pubescent behind and with its hinder margin densely 

 fringed with short, dirty yellow hairs; lateral suture of the neck 

 fringed with very short, gray hairs; mesonotum with a white-pubescent, 

 rather narrow band, l)oginning nbove and slightlv behind the front 



